Indigo SparkeĪre you sitting comfortably? Then let’s begin with her single and video, “Everything Everything”, which we’ve embedded below. She’s clearly deeply creative and a hellishly deep thinker, experiencer and this all feeds through to a record of stunning quality for a debut, placing her firmly out in the lushly shadowy folk realms of Marissa Nadler. I see and feel visually, I am obsessed with immortalizing memory.” My photography, poetry and music were born at a juncture mirroring different parts of me. “There are so many windows in life to look through and so many ways to heal and express. “I feel that death and time hang over me like questions, I have felt the shimmer and the edge for so long now, but what I long for are the worlds of safety and safe love. As soon as you think you’ve got it, it’s gone. “It’s an endless search to understand the mysteries of life and love and history. I think in my life, I have ricocheted off so many different walls within myself. “I feel and have often felt a million different women ramble and reconfigure the corners of my mind and soul. She’s burrowed so deep for this one, reached out into the world and down inside. Adrianne and I talked so much about keeping the record stripped back and simple … we are all just constantly getting stripped back and humbled by life.” “This record is an ode to death and decay and the restlessness I feel to belong to something greater. I think sometimes it’s the dark matter or void space between them, that holds it all together. “I felt like I was standing back in the desert, looking up at the blue night sky, wondering how all the stars would connect. She says of echo: “When writing and recording the record, I wondered how it would all come together. It was recorded in the Big Apple, LA, and in Italy, with finishing touches applied in New York’s Figure 8 Studio. That trip to Austin for SXSW saw her taking time out and just travelling Stateside, spending time in New York, Minneapolis, Topanga seeing, writing, sketching out demos and shaping her debut album, echo, with the guiding hand of Big Thief’s Adrienne Lenker, and that band’s producer, Andrew Sarlo. She began to carve out a reputation on the scene in Australia a debut EP, Night Bloom, emerged in 2016. She opened for Big Thief on the Australian dates of their 2017-18 tour played SXSW in 2019, which led to a coveted slot for an NPR Tiny Desk Concert last March. She attended a performing arts high school, followed that with acting school and was pursuing that before teaching herself to play guitar in her early twenties. It’s fair to say this music comes from deep down but she actually started out on a different career tack. Indigo was born in Sydney to a jazz singer and a musician and was named for the Duke Ellington song “Mood Indigo” she grew up to a soundtrack of Joni Mitchell and Neil Young. But there’s lyrical grit in that shadowy musical velvet she’s doesn’t hide away from the truths, from her lived experience: addiction and healing, queerness, heartbreak, but also joy. The music? It’s so, so very darkly pretty. IF MARISSA NADLER, Aldous Harding, Joanna Newsom, Vashti Bunyan light up your world with otherworldly folk fire – and if they don’t, then maybe we can’t be friends after all – then you really need to take a seat right this minute, and be astonished by Australian folk artist Indigo Sparke, who’s recently inked on the dotted for Sacred Bones.
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